One Hospital’s Timeline for In-Hospital Vertical Evacuation during a Flood Disaster

• Published in: Prehospital and disaster medicine Vol. 34; no. s1; pp. s154 - s155
• Main Authors: Iwasaki, Megumi, Shoko, Tomohisa, Akahoshi, Koki, Adachi, Tomohiro, Yoshikawa, Kazuhide
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.05.2019; Jems Publishing Company, Inc
• Subjects: Disaster risk; Disasters; Emergency preparedness; Environmental risk; Evacuation; Evacuations & rescues; Floods; Poster Presentations; Rivers; Water levels

Introduction: Recently, the risk of flood disasters due to concentrated heavy rains has been increasing in Japan. While some cases of hospital evacuation have been reported, standards for hospital evacuation have not been established and regional administrative evacuation plans do not include medica...